[Orgmode] Re: Org-beamer problems

From:

Bill Moran

Subject:

[Orgmode] Re: Org-beamer problems

Date:

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:34:13 +0000 (UTC)

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Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/)

HI Eric, John, Jeff and Birch
Eric S Fraga <e.fraga <at> ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>
> My immediate response would be to ask why you aren't using \maketitle
> given that the command is beamer-aware? That is, \maketitle will create
> a title page whose format is defined by the beamer theme you have
> selected. Otherwise, you could always customise
> =org-export-latex-title-command= to nothing and use direct latex code to
> do what you want:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> #+begin_latex
> \begin{frame} \titlepage \end{frame}
> #+end_latex
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> I've not tried this.
>
> > 2. \alert command does not work - even with the additions to .emacs
> > suggested here:
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/emacs-orgmode <at> gnu.org/msg21507.html
> > (And there are no errors in running the .emacs file)
> > Always the @ symbol appears in the latex created from org as @.
>
> Can you tell us exactly what you have done to customise the relevant
> variables and where you have done these customisations? Difficult to
> help without this information unfortunately. While we're at it, org and
> emacs version information is also helpful.
>
>
Thanks for all of your responses and for taking the time to help me. I'll try to
answer your questions. As far as possible I use the "stock" ubuntu (maverick -
10.10) repositories for emacs and its associated software. So I'm using emacs
23.1.1 and org-mode 6.36c. The version of beamer I'm using, as described in the
repositories, is latex-beamer 3.07-2ubuntu1. I am aware that there are more
recent versions available - particularly of org-mode - but was trying to keep
things simple.
Let me also say that my aim was to arrive at an understanding of how to use
org-mode for slide creation - since I do a lot of that - rather than to compose
a specific set of slides. I realise that I could use direct latex code to solve
the problems but that wasn't the point of the exercise.
I've read more since I sent the email and now realise that the issues I brought
up have been discussed earlier and where I can I've tried to use the proposed
solutions. In particular I have this in my .emacs:
(setq org-emphasis-alist (quote (("*" bold "<b>" "</b>")
("/" italic "<i>" "</i>")
("_" underline "<span
style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">" "</span>")
("=" org-code "<code>" "</code>" verbatim)
("~" org-verbatim "<code>" "</code>" verbatim)
("+" (:strike-through t) "<del>" "</del>")
("@" org-warning "<b>" "</b>")))
org-export-latex-emphasis-alist (quote
(("*" "\\textbf{%s}" nil)
("/" "\\emph{%s}" nil)
("_" "\\underline{%s}" nil)
("+" "\\texttt{%s}" nil)
("=" "\\verb=%s=" nil)
("~" "\\verb~%s~" t)
("@" "\\alert{%s}" nil)))
)
from a solution to the @ problem proposed by Eric somewhere. And I understand
that I can use \maketitle normally to produce a title page in beamer - just
tried on a hand-crafted (in emacs) latex-beamer file using my set up.
To keep this email as brief as possible, let's take this snippet (verbatim) of
an example from Eric:
----------------------------------start-----------------------------------
#+TITLE: Writing Beamer presentations in org-mode
#+AUTHOR: Eric S Fraga
#+EMAIL: address@hidden
#+DATE: 2010-03-30 Tue
#+DESCRIPTION:
#+KEYWORDS:
#+LANGUAGE: en
#+OPTIONS: H:3 num:t toc:t \n:nil @:t ::t |:t ^:t -:t f:t *:t <:t
#+OPTIONS: TeX:t LaTeX:t skip:nil d:nil todo:t pri:nil tags:not-in-toc
#+INFOJS_OPT: view:nil toc:nil ltoc:t mouse:underline buttons:0
path:http://orgmode.org/org-info.js
#+EXPORT_SELECT_TAGS: export
#+EXPORT_EXCLUDE_TAGS: noexport
#+LINK_UP:
#+LINK_HOME:
#+startup: oddeven
#+startup: beamer
#+LaTeX_CLASS: beamer
#+LaTeX_CLASS_OPTIONS: [bigger]
#+latex_header: \mode<beamer>{\usetheme{Madrid}}
#+BEAMER_FRAME_LEVEL: 2
#+COLUMNS: %20ITEM %13BEAMER_env(Env) %6BEAMER_envargs(Args) %4BEAMER_col(Col)
%7BEAMER_extra(Extra)
* Methodology
** A simple slide
This slide consists of some text with a number of bullet points:
- the first, very @important@, point!
- the previous point shows the use of the special markup which
translates to the Beamer specific /alert/ command for highlighting
text.
The above list could be numbered or any other type of list and may
include sub-lists.
---------------------------end----------------------------------------
When I do "C-c C-e p" to create the pdf file I get 3 slides. The first is a
title page but has no title - only the date. The second is an outline (toc)
slide as expected and the third is again as expected except that @important@ is
not rendered as \alert{important}.
The latex created by "C-c C-e l" is
---------------------------start----------------------------------------
% Created 2011-01-20 Thu 08:18
\documentclass[bigger]{beamer}
\mode<{{{beamermode}}}>
\usetheme{{{{beamertheme}}}}
\usecolortheme{{{{beamercolortheme}}}}
\beamertemplateballitem
\setbeameroption{show notes}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{listings}
\lstset{numbers=none,language=[ISO]C++,tabsize=4,
frame=single,
basicstyle=\small,
showspaces=false,showstringspaces=false,
showtabs=false,
keywordstyle=\color{blue}\bfseries,
commentstyle=\color{red},
}
\usepackage{verbatim}
\institute{{{{beamerinstitute}}}}
\subject{{{{beamersubject}}}}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{fixltx2e}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{wrapfig}
\usepackage{soul}
\usepackage{t1enc}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage{marvosym}
\usepackage{wasysym}
\usepackage{latexsym}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\tolerance=1000
\mode<beamer>{\usetheme{Madrid}}
\providecommand{\alert}[1]{\textbf{#1}}
\title{Writing Beamer presentations in org-mode}
\author{Eric S Fraga}
\date{2010-03-30 Tue}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Outline}
\setcounter{tocdepth}{3}
\tableofcontents
\end{frame}
\section{Methodology}
\label{sec-1}
\begin{frame}[fragile]\frametitle{A simple slide}
\label{sec-1_1}
This slide consists of some text with a number of bullet points:
\begin{itemize}
\item the first, very @important@, point!
\item the previous point shows the use of the special markup which
translates to the Beamer specific \emph{alert} command for highlighting
text.
\end{itemize}
The above list could be numbered or any other type of list and may
include sub-lists.
\end{frame}
\end{document}
----------------------------------end-----------------------------------
and running pdflatex on this produces an identical result to "C-c C-e p" on the
org file - as it should.
I'm not sure I've answered all of your questions but perhaps this is enough to
suggest a solution or refine the questions.
Many thanks for your time!
Bill